I would have loved to have sat in on the pitch meeting for this.
Look at the producer's daunting list of dog related dramas. I was not familiar with Dogville, the series, but I guess there were a ton of these canine features.

Zion Myers & Jules White
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616893/

Doctor ArcaneShouldn't the dachshunds be speaking German? How unrealistic.